Examining Benjamin's contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book situates Benjamin's work within more recent developments in architecture and urbanism.
Examining Benjamin's contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this bo...
An illustrated manual with in-depth technical information on understanding, troubleshooting and making improvements to industrial compressed air systems.
An illustrated manual with in-depth technical information on understanding, troubleshooting and making improvements to industrial compressed air syste...
Phenomenology is one of the most pervasive and influential schools of thought in 20th-century European philosophy. This book provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the idea of the imagination in Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.
Phenomenology is one of the most pervasive and influential schools of thought in 20th-century European philosophy. This book provides a systematic and...
Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy.
Examining Benjamin's contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book also situates Benjamin's work within more recent developments in architecture and urbanism.
This is a concise, coherent account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin's writings to architects, locating Benjamin's critical work within the...
Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthes...
In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families and communities, and its legacy is still with us today - many of us have a coalmining ancestor. Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and understanding the work involved and its historical background can be perplexing. That is why Brian...
In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important...
There have been many books published about the coal mining industry of Britain but relatively few about the miners themselves. This book is unique in that it concentrates on the miner, his family and his work through a careful selection of illustrations. Although most of the images are photographic, and therefore relate to the latter part of the nineteenth to the closing years of twentieth century, use is also made of much earlier sources, from woodcuts and engravings to illustrations in contemporary journals and magazines. A good deal of the material has come from the author's own...
There have been many books published about the coal mining industry of Britain but relatively few about the miners themselves. This book is unique in ...
